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Could you go a whole week without producing any food waste?

Statistics show that 20 per cent of all the food we buy gets chucked away – a figure that’s risen since 2012. Although, realistically, it’s tricky to eliminate every scrap of your food waste, minimising it is a goal we can all work towards. We asked food writer Ramona Andrews and her family to try a no-waste challenge for a week. Here’s how they got on

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SEXY PEEL? Ramona found that her sons Rudy, eight, and Erland, six, enjoyed some of her waste-saving recipes more than others